Using Medicine and Science to Improve the Quality of LifeNew York TimesTo Ms. Onie, that story offers an example of what is wrong with America's health care system: It can be so focused on medicine that it misses the social issues that really drive health. For more than 20 years since she co-founded the nonprofit Health ...

Death's understudy: what sleep can teach medicineFinancial TimesThe need to sleep is a bewildering habit of our species. As darkness falls, we undergo a nocturnal lapse in agency, a period of vulnerability during which the senses lie low and our guard falls. Even if we escape being burgled or murdered as we snooze ...

Your Baby's Teething Medicine Could Be DangerousLifehacker AustraliaIf you're a parent, you've been there. All the rocking, patting and rounds of “Old McDonald” in the world won't stop your baby's misery. After weeks of sleepless nights, you think the child might need to be exorcised, but then it turns out she's just ...

Training to Provide a New Kind of MedicineHSC NewsbeatYour patients teach you a lot. As a young MD in a small Idaho town, David Rakel shared all on-call duties with another doctor at a 14-bed hospital. That situation, he says, spurned an interest in practicing medicine in a way that tries to find the root ...